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How to find the radius or diameter of a curve in Featurescript
peter_morris
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I'm trying to amend some code to generate a spur gear - eventually I want it to create a helical gear, but I have to walk before I can run!
The starting position is that I will have created a part studio with the relevant gears as blank extruded pieces. The diameter of the extrusions are the gear tip diameters as I'm making a drawing of an old lathe. In the precondition section I'm able to select an edge (the curved edge of what will be the gear), but now need to calculate or find the diameter of that circle. I have one immediate challenge and that is how to extract the diameter from the definition.TipDiameter and, in order to refine the precondition, I'd like to be able check that this is actually a curve and not a straight edge.
I'd be really grateful for any advice.
The code I'm using in the precondition is:
The starting position is that I will have created a part studio with the relevant gears as blank extruded pieces. The diameter of the extrusions are the gear tip diameters as I'm making a drawing of an old lathe. In the precondition section I'm able to select an edge (the curved edge of what will be the gear), but now need to calculate or find the diameter of that circle. I have one immediate challenge and that is how to extract the diameter from the definition.TipDiameter and, in order to refine the precondition, I'd like to be able check that this is actually a curve and not a straight edge.
I'd be really grateful for any advice.
The code I'm using in the precondition is:
<div> annotation { "Name" : "Tooth Tip Circle", "Filter" : EntityType.EDGE , "MaxNumberOfPicks" : 1 }</div><div> definition.TipDiameter is Query;</div>and to try and extract the diameter I'm using:
TipDiameterVariable=evaluateQuery(Context, definition.ToothTip)[0];But that is a complete guess that fails to compile properly.
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evCurveDefinition (context is Context, arg is map) returns map
Given a query for a curve, return a
Circle,Ellipse, orLinevalue for the curve. If the curve is none of these types, return a map with unspecified contents.arg<a rel="nofollow" href="https://cad-usw2.onshape.com/FsDoc/variables.html#map">map</a>edge<a rel="nofollow" href="https://cad-usw2.onshape.com/FsDoc/library.html#Query">Query</a>The curve to evaluate.
Thanks Konstantin, I've not managed to make that work - I'll look closer at the ev functions.
Neil, I've been working with an earlier version of your spur gear code as I was hoping to adapt it to create a helical gear (and learn about Featurescript). It looks like this will already do what I want and in a far more sophisticated way than I think I would have achieved - I'm an electronics engineer by trade and this has meant learning way more about gear geometry than I'd ever imagined!
Many thanks to you both.
Regards
Peter